A Female House Servant, New Orleans, ca. 1840
Oil painting showing upper torso and head of female household servant, wearing the mandatory tignon or kerchief. The subject is only identified as a maid of the Douglas family in New Orleans. A New Orleans city ordinance required all black female residents to wear a kerchief . . . over their heads (Campbell and Rice, p. x).
Image Title
A Female House Servant, New Orleans, ca. 1840
RegID
SI-OB-527
Date
1840
Title
A Female House Servant, New Orleans, ca. 1840
Source
Published in E.D.C. Campbell and K.S. Rice, eds., Before Freedom Came: African-American Life in the Antebellum South (Univ. Press of Virginia, 1991), plate 3, p. 10. Painting held by the Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans.
Language
English
Item sets
Portraits & Illustrations of Individuals
Spatial Coverage
North America--Louisiana--New Orleans
Reproduced In
E.D.C. Campbell and K.S. Rice, eds., Before Freedom Came: African-American Life in the Antebellum South (Univ. Press of Virginia, 1991), plate 3, p. 10
Researchers
Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Randall Ericson; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Identifier
NW0122